It was when Martin Luther decided to "reform" the Church. It was also started with the lust of Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn and Anne Boleyn's lust for power. Basically, these people didn't want to follow the rules of the Church, so they went off and started their own churches.
Martin Luther was the leader of the Protestant Reformation.
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The movement is called Protestant Reformation or the Protestant Revolt.The Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Church emerged out of the Reformation of the Catholic Chruch
The disagreement between the Protestants and Catholics eventually led to civil war in Switzerland.
Protesting against the Catholics in the British Isles. *Actually the name originated earlier than that. The term is tied to those groups that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. If you click on the 'related links' below that will take you to a wikipedia page on the Protestant Reformation that will give you all the details.
Martin Luther was angered by the corruption and what he saw as ludicrous beliefs of the catholic church. So he nailed his theses as a protest against it thus starting the Reformation.
The religious protest reform movement that split the church in the 1500s was the Protestant Reformation. It was sparked by figures like Martin Luther, who challenged the teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, leading to a division between those who followed the newly emerging Protestant denominations and those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church.
The Reformation was a protest against perceived wrong doings by the Catholic Church. In response the Catholic Council setup new schools for priests, ended most corruption, and created new religious orders to deal with these problems.
Carolus Powel Harry has written: 'Protest and progress in the sixteenth century' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Reformation
Protest Theology is synonymous with Protestant Theology. The root word "protest" is derived from the protest against the Roman Catholic church in the sixteenth century - a movement led by Martin Luther and other early reformers.
for me a cultural reformation is a reformation cultural